Bed lamp



NOV. 29, 1938. NEMEROFF 2,138,744

BED LAMP Filed Feb. 1a, 1938 Patented Nov. 29, 19381 i I UNITED STATES PATENT OFtFlC-E BED LAMP Victor Nemerofl, Chicago, 111., assignor to Electro Manufacturing 00., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application February 18, 1938, Serial No. 191,215 3 Claims. (Cl. 240-4) This invention relates to lamps and particularly may be secured to the plate It by spot welds or to bed lamps or other; lamps which are adapted other suitable means. to be suspended from bedsteads or from other The free ends of the hooks Il may be covered articles of furniture. by a section of rubber tube 20 in order to protect One of the principal objects of the invention the furniture from being marred. I provide a 5 is to provide a lamp of this type which is simple bumper member or abutment 2| which is adapted to manufacture and to assemble and which is to abut against the forward side of the supportreadily adapted for production in various styles ing memberl8 and maintain the plate It in and colors. spaced relation thereto. This bumper may also 10 According to the invention I form my improved be, in the form of a hook,. the hook portion being 10 lamp of two portions, a back plate, which may relatively small so that the majorlength, which suitably be in the form of a light reflecting metal extends horizontally, is located a suitable dissheet, and a canopy which is removably mounted 'tance in front of the downwardly extending ends thereon. The back plate carries the socket for of the hooks H. The bumper 2| may also be a conventional incandescent bulb and also carencased by a piece of rubber tube 22. 15 ries the supporting means whereby the lamp may On its forward side the plate It has rigidly be located in desired position. mounted on its front side an L-shaped bracket The invention will readily be understood from 23 which carries a conventional lamp socket 24. I the following description of a preferred embodi- The lamp cord 25 extends through an opening ment thereof, taken in conjunction with the ac- 28 formed in the plate I0. 20 companying drawing, in which: The canopy 21 consists of a rigid integral struc- Fig. 1 is a rear elevational view of the lamp, ture. It may suitably be formed of molded plaswith portions of the supporting elements broken tic material, so that it may consist of a single y; integral piece comprising end walls 28 and a gen- Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view therethrough, erally arcuate front wall 29 which connects the 25 the section being taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; two end walls, and extends forwardly from the Fig. 3 is a sectional view, taken on the line upper portion of the back plate l0 and down- 3-3 of Fig. 1, showing the lamp mounted on a wardly to provide a front wall which serves as a suitable support, and I shade for the incandescent light bulb 30 carried 30 Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view, taken by the scoket 24. The employment of a canopy 30 on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1. 29 of molded plastic material enables a wide de- Referring to the drawing, the reference nugree of colors to be obtained and enables employmeral l0 designates the back plate which may ment of colored translucent canopies or shades suitably be an oblong piece of reflective metal or 'which permit general illumination of a soft a piece of metal which is preferably coated with colored character while providing strong illumi- 5 aluminum paint, or the like. The metal plate l0 nation below the lamp to adapt it for use by a is provided with suitable corrugated formations reclining reader. The canopy 21 and back plate II for the purpose of rendering it more rigid. III are correlated to provide a ventilating open- The marginal ends of the plate H) are slit at l2 ing 3| to permit escape of heated air from the 40 to provide, endflanges l3, l4 and IS. The cenunder side of the canopy. In the embodiment 4Q tral flange I3 is considerably larger than either of the invention illustrated, this opening is prothe upper flange M or the lower flange l5, and lies' vided by the central enlargement of the canopy. in the general plane of the plate ill. The flanges Along the rear edges of the end walls 28 are H and I5 are displacedforwardly with respect located small inwardly extending'flanges 32 which to the flanges l3 and they are located in spaced are adapted to cooperate with the flanges l3, I4 45 relation to the flanges l3, as best seen in Fig. 4. and I5 in order to assemble the lamp shade. In The upper corners of the plate Ill, including the manufacturing and assembling the lamp shade, flanges 14, are chamfered as shown at 16. the plate 10 is completely fabricated and it is On the rear side of the plate I01 mount hooks then slipped onto the canopy, the flanges l4 and ll whereby the lamp may be mounted on an end 15 being located on the forward sides of the 50 board ll; of a bedstead, or on any other suitable flanges 32 and the flanges 13 being located on supporting member. The hooks 11 may suitably the rear sides of the flanges 32. The upper be formed of a stout piece of wire, bent into flanges I being located on the inner sides of suitable shape. Each hook may have one end the flanges 32, their chamfered upper edges enflattened, as shown at l8, which flattenedends gage the canopy at the upper rear corners and 55 locate the back in proper registry with the canopy 27. v

Although the invention has been disclosed in connection with the specific 'details of a preferred embodiment thereof, it must be understood that such details are not intended to be limitative of the invention except in so far as set forth in the accompanying claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A lamp of the class described comprising a vertically disposed horizontally elongated metal plate, a lamp socket mounted on the front face of such plate and arranged to support a lamp bulb alongside said plate, attaching means mounted on the rear face of such plate and arranged to engage an upper edge of a piece of furniture whereon the lamp is to be mounted,'a pair of spaced apart horizontal slits formed in each end edge of such plate and dividing such end edge into three relatively wide, spring tongues, the intermediate tongue of each such end edge occupying a vertical plane spaced from a vertical plane occupied by the other two tongues, a relatively rigid frameless canopy, open at back and bottom, which comprises a generally arcuate front wall and a pair of end walls having vertically disposed rear edges, and inwardly turned vertical flanges formed on therear edges of the end walls of the canopy, said flange being of a width to fit frictionally between and to be longitudinally embraced by said spring tongues, whereby each of such canopy end wall flanges will have one of its faces engaged by the intermediate tongue at one end of the metal plate and having the other of its faces engaged by the other two tongues at the same end of such metal plate.

2. A lamp of the class described comprising a vertically disposed horizontally elongated metal plate, a lamp socket mounted on the front face of such plate, a pair of spaced apart downwardly opening hooks mounted on the rearface of such plate and arranged to engage an upper edge of a piece of furniture whereon the lamp is tobe mounted, a plurality of olfset, outwardly extending, spring tongues at each end of such plate, a relatively rigid frameless canopy open at backand bottom, said canopy comprising a generally arcuate front wall and a pair of end walls having ver tically disposed rear edges and inwardly turned vertical flanges formed on the rear edges of the end walls of the canopy, each of such canopy end wall flanges being of a width to be frictionally engaged and embraced on its opposite faces by the tongues of the metal plate.

3. A lamp of the class described comprising a vertically disposed horizontally elongated metal plate, incandescent lamp bulb supporting means carried on the front face of such metal plate, means mounted on the rear face of such plate and arranged to engage an upper edge of a piece of furniture whereon the lamp is to be mounted and to space such plate from the piece of furniture to provide a substantial air space between said plate and such piece of furniture, three onset, spring tongues outwardly extending from opposite side edges of said metal plate, a substantially rigid frameless canopy open at back and bottom, said canopy having a. generally arcuate front wall and a pair of end walls and an inwardly turned vertical flange formed on the rear edge of each end wall of the canopy, said plate being of a length to extend entirely across, the open back of said canopy, and each of such canopy end wall flanges having one of its faces of a width to be engaged by the intermediate tongue at one end of the metal plate and having the other of its faces of a width to be engaged by the other two tongues at the same end of such metal plate, whereby to provide .a vertically extending connection between said plate and flanges and said plate being spaced from said arcuate wall of said canopy to provide an opening into the space within said canopy for the escape of heated air therefrom.

WCTOR NEMEROFF. 

